James L. Swanson The Deerfield Massacre recensie en informatie boek over een bloedige strijd tussen indianen en kolonisten in Amerika in 1704. Op 27 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner het boek The Deerfield Massacre van de Amerikaanse historicus en schrijver James L. Swanson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.
James L. Swanson The Deerfield Massacre recensie
- “A meticulous account of the eponymous 18th–century massacre . . . Swanson’s narrative pivots ingeniously from the event itself . . . to trace the massacre’s afterlife … The result is a rewarding close look at the process of history-making.” (Publishers Weekly)
- “A briskly told history of death, resilience, and recovery in the American past.” (Kirkus Reviews)
The Deerfield Massacre
A Surprise Attack, a Forces March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
- Auteur: James L. Swanson (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Scribner
- Verschijnt: 27 februari 2024
- Omvang: 336 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $30.00 / $14.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over een confrontatie tussen Indianen en kolonisten in 1704
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between Indians and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded, written by acclaimed historian James Swanson.
Once it was one of the most infamous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten.
In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704. This impregnable barricade—known to early Americans as “The Old Indian Door”—constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the tomahawk blades wielded by several attacking Native tribes, is the sole surviving artifact from one of the most dramatic moments in colonial American history: In the leap year of 1704, on the cold, snowy night of February 29, hundreds of Indians and their French allies swept down on an isolated frontier outpost to slaughter or capture its inhabitants.
The sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of survival, sacrifice, family, and faith ever told in North America. One hundred and twelve survivors, including their fearless minister, the Reverend John Williams, were captured and forced to march three hundred miles north into enemy territory in Canada. Any captive who faltered or became too weak to continue the journey—including Williams’s own wife—fell under the tomahawk or war club.
Survivors of the march willed themselves to live and endured captivity. Ransomed by the royal governor of Massachusetts, the captives later returned home to Deerfield, rebuilt their town and, for the rest of their lives, told the incredible tale. The memoir of Rev. Williams, The Redeemed Captive, published soon after his liberation, became one of the first bestselling books in American history and remains a literary classic. The Old Indian Door is a touchstone that conjures up one of the most dramatic and inspiring stories of colonial America—and now, at last, this legendary event is brought to vivid life by popular historian James Swanson.